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7 months ago

A Run, A Walk, Two Rocks And Some Food In Tokyo I went downtown yesterday to see the new Mineral Museum my friends are opening in Ginza. Along the way I stopped off in Shibuya for a light breakfast at Starbucks. ![](

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7 months ago

Mineral Mondays #87 California Sapphires A couple of weeks ago I re-re-discovered an important corundum deposit in California. The deposit has been talked about for 100 years, but due to it's size and remote location, it has stay

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8 months ago

Falling Off The Edge Of The World - Three Tune Tuesday I climbed a mountain today looking for sapphires & rubies, aka corundum. It almost killed me as I didn't bring enough water, the temperature reached about 78deg and I had on…

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10 months ago

The Art Of The Stone - Mineral Mondays #85 A trend lately in Japan is accenting your office space or home with minerals and crystals, in part thanks to a Men's magazine, Brutus . ![](

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10 months ago

Mineral Mondays #86 See Ya In Tucson The Largest Gem & Mineral Show In The World Far away from Tokyo, in a foreign land lies Tucson(Two-sawn), a city in Southern Arizona. It was made famous by the many silver and mineral mines in the surrounding areas in the…

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9 months ago

Smoky & The Bandit And The Banded Fluorite? Entry For Reflection Hunters #205 Yesterday I was heading home from the Tucson Gem and Mineral shows, but I didn't quite feel like I had enough mineral hunting. So I fired up Mindat.org to see if there were any…

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